Raleigh Correctional Center for
Women
gets new
superintendent
RALEIGH
- Kenneth Royster, with more than 18 years of corrections experience, has
been named the
new superintendent at Raleigh Correctional Center for Women
(RCCW).
Royster
will be responsible for all administration, operations and public safety
at the minimum-custody prison for adult females. Approximately 185 women
are incarcerated there.
Having
been assistant superintendent at the prison since 2001, Royster succeeds
Joyce Kornegay, who was recently named superintendent of Umstead
Correctional Center in Butner.
After
seven years in the US Army, Royster began as a correctional officer at the
now-closed Triangle Correctional Center in 1988. In 1990, he was named
lead officer at the Division of Prison's North Central Area Diagnostic
Center, before being promoted in 1991 to sergeant at Triangle CC.
Royster moved in 1993 as sergeant to NC Correctional Institution for
Women, where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1994 and captain in 1997,
before his jump to assistant superintendent at Raleigh CCW in
2001.
The
Henderson native and his wife and two children reside in Garner. He enjoys
exercise and yard and garden work.
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